Cortland Dahl, PhD: The Energizing Force of Compassion
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In this episode of Insights at the Edge, my guest is Cortland Dahl. Cortland is a scientist, Buddhist scholar and translator, and a meditation teacher. Under the guidance of the Tibetan meditation master Mingur Rinpoche, Cortland Dahl co-founded Tirgar International, a global network of meditation centers on six continents, and he currently serves as the executive director of Tirgar International. Cortland is also actively involved in scientific research on meditation and human flourishing.
He's the chief contemplative officer at Healthy Minds Innovations. working with Dr. Richie Davidson and his team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to develop the Healthy Minds mobile app. Cortland is also the author of a new book. It's called A Meditator's Guide to Buddhism: The Path of Awareness, Compassion, and Wisdom.
Cortland, welcome. It's an honor to be with you, Tammy. Thank you so much for having me on. One of the things I've learned in your new book, A Meditator's Guide to Buddhism, is that you often like to begin a new project or a meditation session, a practice period, with a declaration of a compassionate motivation, a rousing of a compassionate motivation. And I wonder.
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